My typical workflow for checking out new open source projects: - find . -type f - find . -name \* .ext | wc -l (get an idea of complexity) - git log (is thi

My typical workflow for checking out new open source projects: - find . -type f - find . -name \* .ext | wc -l (get an idea of complexity) - git log (is this thing maintained?) - find . -name \* .ext | ctags - find main entry points, depending on platform and language - vim with NerdTree enabled - CTRL-], CTRL-T to jump to browse tags in vim Generally a lot of find, grep and vim gets me started.